Cité Soleil under siege:

Haiti's elite, U.N., and fat cat NGOs paralyzed

April 25, 2005 - HIP - Lavalas militants created a massive traffic jam in the wealthy suburb of Petion-Ville today by felling a telephone pole on a road used by the country's wealthy elite, highly paid non-governmental specialists and commanders of the United Nations contingent. Traffic was backed up for six hours leading to luxury homes on Laboule road after militants first used machetes to weaken the pole and then backed up a large truck forcing it to block the road.

On the eve of their first major act of creative non-violence resistance
since Aristide's ouster, an anonymous spokesperson stated, "We are not
gangsters, we are not criminals. We did not use guns to perform this
act. Many of the elite who sponsored and supported the coup of February
29, 2004 must use this road to return home to their families. We want to
create a traffic jam to force them to sit and reflect upon what they
have done to this country. You can see them finally acknowledging the
poor market place women who line the roads to their homes. Today, U.N.
forces that are ready to kill us surround Cité Soleil and Bel Air.
Maybe now they will see how vulnerable they really are. The poor who
supported Jean-Bertrand Aristide live among them, in their communities.
We demand the return of our constitutional president and only after that
can we can have free and fair elections."

Meanwhile, citizens of the poor slum of Cité Soleil who continue to
demand Aristide's return are forced to take an accounting of their dead
and wounded. U.N. forces led by the Jordanian contingent are accused of
turning the area into a virtual concentration camp. Evidence shows
these poor neighborhoods have been victims to fragmentation and
incendiary type bombs lobbed into the community by U.N. forces over the
past few days. One victim of the shrapnel explained, "We were sleeping
when the bomb exploded. It sent metal fragments to kill people
everywhere. It landed in a large pool of water that became filled with
fire before exploding. It nearly burned down my house. At first I
didn't feel anything but my son said I was bleeding from my side." A
Lavalas militant stated, "The Jordanians are the most brutal among the
U.N. forces. We are not stupid. We realize the Jordanian people could
never live up to the one-man one vote formula dictated to us by the
international community. We have contact with Jordanians who say they
are living under an undemocratic dictatorship in their own country.
What has the U.S. promised them in military aid to oppress our people
in the name of democracy? Look it up in the record. Every single nation
that is participating in the U.N. coalition in Haiti to receives large
funding from the Pentagon. All we ask is that you do your homework. We
know what FMF and IMET represents. Argentina, Brazil and Chile are
major recipients of U.S. military and financial assistance. We
challenge you to realize the impact of the U.S. upon this U.N.
coalition in Haiti today. The U.S. embassy along with the U.S. dollar
has compromised our sovereignty and it is their bullets and bombs that
are killing us today. They all have proved for the last time the
Haitian Constitution is just a piece of paper for them."

John MaxwellThe Company They KeepCOMMON SENSE # 462 - Jamaica Observer Columnist, John Maxwell, just wanted totalk to the UN official that was on BBC about human rights in Haiti. Not high on their agenda. What is important to the US puppets in the United Nations is assassinating Dred Wilme. John Bolton is probably not interested in talking to John Maxwell either. Apr 23

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